i'm with maybe, maybe i'm maybe with can, ah, the you leaders join nato and promising tough sanctions against russia and the quote high price for any escalation of tensions and the break away don bass region of eastern ukraine. cnn fires a producer after he's charged with sexually abusing children. questions are now being asked as to why it took 18 months for the police to make an arrest after a criminal complaint was filed last year. a new study finds that divisions in u. s. society could be reaching a tipping point with sociologists concluding republicans and democrats may not be

able to unite even in the face of war. and as global concerns spread over the omicron cope at variance the w h o europe director tells r t. it's vital to deliver vaccines where they're needed, including rushes, spoke mclee, shot hose, including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of audited ah, are 5 am here in the russian capital and you're watching or to international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the program. european commission president ursula underlay and warns of a quote, massive cost for russia. if there's any escalation of tensions with ukraine. that comes just hours after a similar warning from nato. al concern related to russia's military built up on

the east and ukrainian borders. a well known opposition is very clear. we maintain our call on russia to de escalate tensions and refrain from any further aggression . if russia were to move against ukraine. the union will be in a position to take sanctions that could extract a massive cost. we have done our work in that respect. we are gravely concerned by the substantial unprovoked and unjustified russian military buildup on the borders of ukraine in recent months and rejects the false russian claims of ukrainian and nato provocations. recall on russia to immediately deescalate pursued diplomatic channels and abide by international commitments on transparency of military activities in the state than nato also reaffirmed its commitment to defend its allies and invited moscow to attend the nato russia council. the 2nd, the secretary general of nato said earlier that there can be no compromise in

expanding the trans atlantic defense alliance. that despite calls from president vladimir putin for guarantees that nato will not add new members near or on russia's borders on thursday, the also extended sanctions against russia for 6 months over the situation in ukraine. charlotte rabinski takes up the story quite a lot to digest from that press conference with the nato secretary general. but he talked about what he sees as being a pattern of aggression coming from russia. and he said, nato will continue to do all it's necessary to ensure that the rights of its allies, its members, are protected. but nature supporting his opinion, does not mean that it's a threat to russia recently moved from macedonia. and also montenegro have both been accepted into the nato, a life that is despite protests from the russian government about that. let's have a listen to what else yen stilton burke had to say. nato has proven over the last

years that our open door policy is not only something we are support in words, but those in deeds party by inviting to new countries, montenegrin north macedonia to become members. so we have enlarged the line so that all spheres with 2 new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's efforts to come closer to natal membership. so he went on to talk about what he sees as russia substantial and military build up all the pool door areas with ukraine. and he said that that build up is a provocation. and that it could destabilize europe as well. i thought russia's point of view, it has repeatedly denied that there is any intention or any build up that is looking to invade into ukraine. we know that russia's foreign ministry spokesperson

has slammed this sort of talk. and she said that such statements just will not help deescalate tensions in the region. if a tional laws, this is it is information can paint the aims to create. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor. secondly, additional tashing of the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional agenda, what it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course, western journalists freely use the word aggressor, referring to our country. what right do they have to do this? i trait understand is every time, when was the last time rush attacked, anyone? people need to pick up the screen with arguments and how many times have native countries attack to sovereign states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? kenny show me something him close to that from the russian site. no,

there is nothing that you need to figure out where there are facts and where there is propaganda. now it's not just russia that saying, look, we north intending to invade ukraine. we're also hearing similar views from some of your groups leaders. for example, the primary is the of easily, this is mary a druggie, a said that he's been talking to president putin over the last few weeks and months, and as far as he's concerned invading ukraine, this idea isn't based on any fact. we've also heard warnings from the french president about this kind of talk, the hope so suggesting that this war is brewing between russia and ukraine and could pull in other countries as well. president mack, on saying at such talk doesn't help and act, she could end up being a self fulfilling prophecy or sister channel archie deutsch spoke with a politician and published as to found a germany's justice party. he says that despite its dominance to other nato members

should not always do what the u. s. want europe and the relations between russia and the other with some countries. that's not a game. i think nato is an organization where united states has play very important jaws, but they are not the only partner in this case. she's always making wonders to do, doing the last decades in us all this was and we destroyed countries without any reasons. and there was no politician and no secretary genera of the nato of nato, who had the courage to say, no, no, mister president, we are not following you. falling our interests in our interests. we have to make peace and not war. cnn producer has been charged with child sex crimes arrival news outlet has also discovered that

a criminal complaint involving the man was filed last year suggesting that law enforcement knew about his legit activities. well, before they made an arrest or t caleb mopping can give us more details on the case. john griffin is a long time cnn producer, and we understand he's now been arrested. he's charged with 3 counts of attempting to engage in illegal sexual activities with a minor. now we understand that what happened was there was a mother who took her adoptive daughter to meet with him after receiving $3500.00 from him over the app known as venmo. and at that point, we understand that in august of 2020 this, there was a myriad of electronic devices that were seized from this mother. and now at this point, we have sienna and coming forward and saying they had no idea about these illegal and despicable activities, allegedly carried out by their former producer. and they also make

a point of saying that none of the electronic devices that were seized were owned by cnn. here's what they said. prior to his arrest and indictment, we had no knowledge about the case. the question remains, why did it take so long for this arrest and charging to take place? complaint was received in august of 2020. that's when the electronics were seized. why is the arrest simply happening now? the f. b, i did not give an answer that is satisfying people the allegation to deeply disturbing the f. b i, along with our law enforcement partners, will continue to aggressively investigate those who victimized the most vulnerable in our communities. now the us attorney's statement regarding the arrest of mr. griffin, provide some pretty shocking and harrowing details. apparently, mr. griffin is accused of having tried to set up training sessions for under age girls. as well as women,

griffin sought to sway parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive. the mother and child flew to boston in july of 2020, where griffin picked them up in his tesla and drove them to his ludlow house. at the house, the torso was directed to engage in and did engage in unlawful sexual activity. and now this long time, cnn producer is now in custody, awaiting trial facing charges for 3 counts of sex trafficking miners. if convicted, he could face life in prison, but many are looking at this case and asking questions about the timing. why was it that these electronic devices were seized in august of 2020? the criminal complaint was filed, but he's just been arrested now. what exactly is going on here? people want clear answers, but at this point, we don't have those answers. we've asked the f b i for comments requesting a statement on the revelations made by fox news regarding this case. and we will let you know if we do get a response an irreversible divide. that is the stage american society is

reaching according to a new academic study. and it, it is at a tipping point. if polarization is to extreme, people become divided even on the shock issue. if we reach that point, we cannot unites even in the face of war, climate change pandemic. so all of the challenges to the survival of our society. now, earlier former pennsylvania state senator bruce marx joined my colleague, rory sushi here in the studio to share his perspective on the growing rift and american politics. the nbc accomodate of nbc was saying, he said there was 30000000 people right. not ready to take up arms to for donald trump. back in the office. that's somewhere between 20 and 30000000 people. that's a mass movement in america, in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. does that sound accurate to you? well, i don't think that you're gonna see anybody taking up arms in the literal sense of, you know, having, you know, weapons. but i think that maybe there's

a 120000000 or 130000000, or maybe more people who be willing to vote for donald trump. we had the tobacco in afghanistan, which was poorly handled in and maybe united states look weak on the international, you know, a platform where they didn't get the americans out before the troops, laughter. that's number one and number 2, with all of the spending that were happening because of these, you know, bills that the democrats just wanna throw money at. we, for the 1st time. i mean, in a long time, we have inflation so that, so this is, this is not just the media fear mongering about inflation in america. because we've been reporting that it's nearly at a full decade high inflation in the united states. it's just about everything across the board now is more expensive than it was even just a year ago. is that, is that true? was absolutely it's, it's absolutely true. i just, i grew up in the 70, so i can remember when we had inflation, then we really haven't had inflation since i'd say that's the late 1980 s has been fairly stable. absolutely. you go to you, listen,

you can't fully american public. we have the whole problem, you know, with the transport and getting goods, goods into the country. i wanted to ask you just briefly, going back to biden's approval ratings and the inflation crisis cove. it afghanistan, the list goes on and yet he says, he says the following about mid times have a quick listen to this. if you would in 2021 as a unified democratic party or unify that ever. now we look at 2020. do i want to tell my republican friend get ready bell? you're going in for a problem. what he seems certainly out made and optimistic. the how do you think is ratings right now will affect the mid terms. i think they've already infected the elections, the united states. we had a republican when governor and virginia completely unexpected. ah, that was in part because of the lack of popularity of president biden. it's typical that the party that's out of power does well in the mid years, but with biden. and his lack of popularity is really even his inability to campaign

could didn't even campaign for himself when he was running for president. i don't think that we're going to see him going around the country and supporting very many democrat candidates, and the republicans, i think are gonna feel very good slate of. of candidates. you k has reported a record covered search with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testings been ramped up. i made fears over the new alma krom strain. the new varian so far has been registered in 77 countries. and despite, and despite its rapids spread earlier, early studies from south africa and hong kong suggest one micron is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta variant. very few debts have been linked to this new strain, but countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine campaigns and our correspondent ilia katrinka sat down with the w h, chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have the tours and about oh michel,

it's to it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stew. delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost, boost number city. double the number of people varying marks. indorse number for ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against on the wrong? let me know as of to date that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it covers with a cert doors,

well on the european union. specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular? do uniformed, it has been growing over time. but i take the point that it's still really aleck, off uniformity, with a cold political here it is and it's confuses the people. that's right. dublin was advocating to establish a bung european health senate council at the high level to half uniformed in policy, but ultimately still health is a national competency. it's a decision by the country of speaking of sputnik v, a r t. we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? house including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the president of the russian federation that this dub rachel emergency use listing for sputnik ruby there. soon

. germany's government is facing a furious backlash against plans for mandatory coven vaccines and tough new restrictions. the region of bavaria has seen mass unrest and an official in dresden has received death threats or your correspond or corresponded peter oliver reports . munich was the latest city in germany to see demonstrations by anti vax groups, as well as those that are opposed to the measures that have been put in place to try and stop the spread of coven 19 place. there are 4000 people, turned up at the demonstration in bavaria. it was all relatively peaceful until a group of around $4.00 to $500.00 of them decided they were going to go to march around the city that resulted in some captain. mouse with the police said, bit of pushing and shoving and ultimately according to the police $28.00 arrests being made. they ranged from people refusing to wear masks to those that had

assaulted police officers. what we have seen at these type of demonstrations though, is an increase in the, the speed at which it, and choose and the amounts of people who are getting involved in violence, ah, ah, when we're talking about these demonstrations, they are groups that serve anti vaccine as they said also opposed to those a covert measures, but a lot of them are lumped under the umbrella of a group called the lateral think is now they have been roundly mocked a here in germany, in society as well as on t v. in satirical tv programs and, and elsewhere, but things have taken a much darker turn. in fact, on wednesday morning, dawn rates were carried out across the state of saxony, in the east of germany. in connection with a plot to assassinate the,

the leader of the government of the states of saxony that michael clayschmidt also to launch attacks against the politicians in that state. now saxony has some of the lowest rates of vaccination in germany. it also has some of the highest rates of covert infection as well. well, following those rates, 5 men and one woman were taken into custody. what it's seen is a number of politicians turning on the messaging application telegram with them, saying that it was all not messaging application that this type of, of plot was able to be finessed and, and the message being spread. they are extremely dangerous because they're not only talking, chatting and inciting each other, but also taking action very worthwhile pointing out they steam lateral thing. cuz the anti vaccines, the div anti cove measure, people are a smaller percentage of the population than leave those at lodge. what we have seen

is a large number of people coming forward for vaccinations here in germany. in fact, on wednesday, they broke records with 1500000 jobs being handed out across the whole of the country. now 1300000 of those were booster vaccines. what we have those the read the rest were i the 1st or 2nd doses oh vaccine. now what we have is around 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated, but there is a group of around 20 percent of the population that all vehemently anti vaccine here in germany. and they just so absolutely no interest in guessing that vaccine whatsoever. in fact, that's why we've seen or left sholtes, the german chancellor talking about the possibilities of potentially in the future . seeing mandatory vaccination countries like austria on greece have already said that from next year they will be implementing mandatory vaccination. it's still at the discussion phase here. in germany though, also in german news,

our sister channel r t. deutsch has been taken off youtube and happened on the day it launched its 1st televised broadcast in the country. the reason given for the ban is that r t deutsch, his previous youtube account was removed, and apparently the owner of any blocked channel is forbidden from starting a new one. that's despite the fact that r t deutsch has new channel actually has a different owner. and in any case, you can always watch the brand new channel ads, d e dot r t dot com. we got the low down on what unfolded on launch day from one of the stations heads. auntie of them has been terminated by you for what you to code, violation of the time of service. the next is that the court said that you've got to complain that oddity of vengeance had effect, invented some technical safety measures. this means, according to you, that quite if your child is terminated, you may be unable to use iron. o creates any on that to keep child. and quiet. auto

center was the latest addition to i. t family on youtube that includes dozens of channels. it was sent out by the boston company over t and a tv novice. stay in mosca and i'm confused by new team of editors. i see of them didn't have now the nation to our youtube channel that was terminated in september . i that i did tori. they put technic committee because the channel that was visited in september was owned by a different company on tv productions. it's also worth mentioning that at the time of termination, ocoee, the youtube channel, had some $600000.00 followers. and i got 540000000 views and despite the year to ban or german sr channel is now up and running ortiz, danny armstrong look, said what other obstacles it's had to overcome to get on air. the journey to launch day has been the usual trek through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival, gym,

and media. it's bad enough that putin's voice sounds out across the internet, if it were not for one reliable german meteor outlet. dest spiegel kremlin owned outlets would dominate the german digital information space. in both the number of articles published in social engagement received. there is reason to believe that most of the traffic on our tea channels is real and not acquired through purchased fake profiles. the thinly veiled disdain from rival gym and media outlets have come in a form of gallant cries to stop the so called moscow mouthpiece. and kremlin back putin propaganda, of course, that has nothing to do with our tea, deutsche, his popularity on a string of social media, where they consistently rank among the top most viewed channels as regards news and politics. ah

for it wasn't just rival outlets that ran so the, his theory over r t deutsch. his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched. attacks on our t employees, framing them as perpetrators of this information. and d, stabilizing democracy. those who work for odyssey have said good bye to critical and independent journalism and whether they want it or not, all the employees are part of the destabilization of democracy. this is not about the approval of a profane entertainment channel, but about e. u wide access for putin propaganda and targeted disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down our tea toich. his ascent was yanked back down to earth when youtube band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now,

despite rumors that the pan was pearl impact, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure on brussels or the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so this fight for the people's best efforts, r t deutsch is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware. and that's the rundown of today's world news story. stick around for our world news headlines and just about another 30 minutes with a

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a public policy today. whether you are talking about popularity or dollars and cents, politicians often look to the numbers to guide their agenda. now none is more true except in regards to police reform, wherein the most liberal cities, politicians pushed their defend the police rhetoric onto their voters because it was the popular thing to do at the time. however, as these same politicians are seeing, this policy is dangerous as the violent crimes and murder rates in those same districts have caused them to lose their popularity. you don't have to be too intelligent to see the correlation between the reduction of law enforcement and the rise isn't crime as related. so as the cost of the politicians pandering paid for in blood and violence in their own streets, our panel will discuss and figure policy doesn't own stock herself. but that doesn't mean her husband doesn't have a very comprehensive portfolio, including stocks which have direct connections to legislation,

which the speaker herself is involved in. but guess what? it's all completely legal. but is it not just the elected who are taking advantage of the insider information? if they're top staff members who are also possibly using the opportunity as well? we're going to bring you all the details. and do you remember the counters on most media outlets during the pandemic which displayed the loss of human life to cove it on a ticker? now those have disappeared, but that doesn't mean no one is dying from cove. it. in fact, the latest numbers actually show more people have died from cobra this year than last. so what does that number tell us? and why isn't it being reported? and the wine industry, which the majority is built on numbers, and maybe a little walk is the gaming sector who is having a record year. but in a time where the economy is strapped and inflation is skyrocketing, where's the money coming from? i'm going to use and we're going to break down the numbers and these stories and

more on trade news views use right here on our to america. ah, we start today with the number 75. now this is the number of ambush attacks which had happened on american police officers in 2021. and this is 103 percent from the previous year, including the latest officer in baltimore who is currently on life support falling the early morning attack on thursday, while he was sitting and his police cruiser. now in all 93 officers have been shot in ambush attacks alone with 21 losing their life. that number is added to the overall number of 44 officers who have been killed by gunfire, which is almost 20 percent of the 241 officers who have been shot just in.